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V. 15 N. 19 (2024): Verso nuove estati. Passato, presente e futuro delle colonie per l’infanzia in Europa
A cura di Sofia Nannini (Politecnico di Torino).
The state of abandonment of numerous former children's colonies scattered throughout Italy underlines the urgency of a scientific-critical debate on the history and future of these buildings. From the Alpine valleys to the coastal areas, the former children's colonies tell a long history of healthcare, pedagogical, architectural and social experimentation that has influenced generations of citizens in Italy and Europe over the last one hundred and fifty years. Housed in traditional or highly modern architecture, made of long-lasting construction materials such as reinforced concrete or ephemeral such as tents, the former colonies have left significant traces, physical and otherwise, in the landscape and in society. This issue of in_bo hosts the most recent research relating to the history of children's colonies in Europe between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - with different interpretations, from architecture to pedagogy, from politics to healthcare - and highlights virtuous experiences of reuse and restoration of this architectural heritage.
The connection between the forms of exercise of power and those of space must be placed under continuous observation. In a co-evolutionary ecosystem, where local societies transform (and are transformed with) the environments in which they live, a disturbance in the ways of living and producing ends up also disturbing the forms of government, and vice versa. In this motion of becoming and co-becoming, the condition for safeguarding democracy is the protection of what we here call democratic cities and territories, of which we have collectively attempted to circumscribe the meaning, characteristics and limits. Whether they are real or utopian expressions, observation or desire; whether models exist to implement them; whether there are parameters that identify its democracy; if an aesthetic distinguishes them: we try to answer these questions in the present issue of the in_bo magazine edited by Ilaria Agostini, Luigi Bartolomei and Elena Franco.
in_bo vol. 13 no. 17 focuses on one of the themes of his main and constant interest from an original angle, namely the relationship between sacred architecture and design teaching in contemporary architecture schools. The volume, conceived in collaboration with the Frate Sole Foundation (Pavia) and edited by Luigi Bartolomei and Andrea Conti, traces a reflection starting from the sacred, as the object of maximum expression of the project in architecture up to the intrinsic relationship between pedagogy of planning and the sacred, understood as a complex of rites, which manifest themselves in architecture teaching practices. The authors' contributions range from design laboratory cases to theoretical reflections, and to the analysis of the teaching and working practices of architects and artists.
V.12 No.16 (2021)Domain of the sacred. Image, cartography, knowledge of the city after the Council of Trent
Edited by Mario Bevilacqua (University of Florence) and Marco Folin (University of Genoa).
Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Italian political geography polarized around a group of cities of various sizes and traditions: Rome and Florence, Milan and Naples, Genoa and Venice, Turin and Modena, ancient republics and new dynastic capitals, satellites of the great European monarchies and small noble towns. The meeting - more sporadically the clash - between the dictates of the Council of Trent and the interests of the dominant elites of these cities lays the foundations for unprecedented forms of social, cultural, spiritual control, fueling new urban arrangements and policies, in which the presence and the management of the sacred becomes a strongly conditioning element. The protagonists are then the widespread presence of male religious orders and female cloisters, the renewed contribution of the resident episcopal curia, the parish entity and its role of control and social registration, the consolidation of the confraternity presence, the emergence of new places of worship and devotional practices.
in_bo vol. 12, no. 6 collects the proceedings of the summer school "New scenarios for disused monastic heritages" held in Lucca between 25 July and 3 August 2019 and promoted by the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna, Cherubino Ghirardacci Study Centre, Lucca IMT Advanced Studies School and by the Augustinian monastic community of the Corpus Domini monastery of Cento. The volume, edited by Luigi Bartolomei and Sofia Nannini, offers reflections on the abandoned monastic heritage, with analyzes that intersect architecture, religion, law, economy, art and history.
in_bo vol. 11, no. 15 focuses on the relationship between narratives and the city, investigating the current role of a tool and its ability to support urban practices. The volume's contents range from invited short essays, scientific articles and visual works, attempting to explore and trace new trajectories on which to base the future of the relationship between architectural design, narratives and urban phenomena. The volume is edited by Michele F. Barale and Matteo Vianello.
The evolution in the role of the designer and in the teaching of architecture. Special issue.
Landscape Education for Democracy. Create participatory education in landscape planning and design for sustainable development. Special issue edited by Ellen Fetzer and Deni Ruggeri.
Monographic issue on the life and work of Glauco Gresleri, edited by Luigi Bartolomei, Marianna Gaetani and Sofia Nannini.
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